Sbisa appeared on the ice briefly at the morning skate then ducked back inside.

"He tried it and he said, 'Not tonight,'" Boudreau said.

It appears rookie Sami Vatanen will take Sbisa's place in the lineup. Vatanen played three games in February. He brings more offensive flair and likely will see time on the power play like he did in his first stint.

"I've been playing pretty good right now down in Norfolk, so I hope it helps a little bit to go on," Vatanen said.

Columbus coach Todd Richards said Tim Erixon will go in for Aucoin. Erixon has been scratched the past five games and injured in the two previous games. Richards said he expected Nikita Nikitin to play despite also being banged up.

Anahiem's defense is also without Cam Fowler, who skated but will miss a second straight game and is out until at least Friday with an upper-body injury from Saturday night against the Los Angeles Kings.

"It's not going to take Cam a long time to get back into game readiness once he's cleared for contact," Boudreau said.

Notes: Bobrovsky is expected to make a ninth straight start. Richards, asked how he's managed Bobrovsky, said, "I try to keep as far away from him as I can. As far as from a coach-player relationship, he's perfect. He'll communicate with you. He doesn't get locked into his own world and close everything out on a game day. He's still a good teammate. He'll talk. He's got his routines that he does so he can prepare."

Notes: Boudreau again mixed up his lines, notably moving Ryan off the top line, in order to generate more scoring – the Ducks have scored four goals in three games. But the coach said he wants the line identities to form before the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

"I'd like the last three or four games for us to have our units together," Boudreau said. "Obviously I would like to have everybody, in a perfect world, confident in who they're playing with and going into the games knowing who they're going to play with. In case of injury you can't do that. But it's something I'm cognizant of and I think it is important now to start finalizing lines."

Bonino has been skating for nearly a week and aims to get into a game sometime on the club's four-game road trip. He has been out since March 8.

"It's crazy. I've never had anything like this," Bonino said. "You're sitting out watching the team for the last 20 games. It's frustrating."

He's only 17 but he can see the ice so well and he moves the puck and goes to the open ice all the time, so I just think he's a player that is ready to play in the NHL. I'm really looking forward to coaching someone like this.

— U.S. National Junior Team coach Ron Wilson on Auston Matthews, the projected No. 1 pick of the 2016 NHL Draft